Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, 750g
Forgiveness is the real feature here. Leave the bag a minute too long while you are doing three other things and the cup does not turn hard on you, which matters more in a kitchen that boils the kettle six times a day than any tasting note does. Rounded, heavy, sweetish malt, and it colours up fast, so go easier with the milk than habit tells you. One practical thing: a box this size stays open for weeks, so tip it into a caddy and close the lid.
Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, in brief.
Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240 is the 240-bag catering box of the Harrogate house blend, roughly 3.1g of leaf per bag.
The leaf dose per bag matches the standard boxes, so the bulk size is a cheaper wrapper rather than a lesser tea.
Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240 is the catering-sized box of the blend that most of the north of England treats as the default.
The blend itself is the familiar one: rounded, malty, built to be drunk with milk and forgiving of a brew that runs a minute long. It is the tea for a busy kitchen, an office, a village hall or a household that puts the kettle on six times a day. A box this size is not a treat purchase, it is infrastructure, and it is priced accordingly.
Curator notes: these malt, body, briskness and bitterness ratings are an editorial view of the 240 carton as packed today, alongside Taylors' published description. We normally have the 240 bag carton dispatched in 1 to 2 working days. Keeping a box this big fresh, how long to brew and iced tea by the jug are all answered below.
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The Story Behind the Yorkshire Tea
Taylors of Harrogate is the family tea and coffee business based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and Yorkshire Tea is the blend it is known for. The house buys to a fixed cup specification rather than from a single named garden, and the blenders taste against that specification through every batch. The result is a tea that is meant to be boringly reliable, which in a household blend is the highest compliment available.
The 240-bag box is the bulk format, and it exists for places where tea is consumed rather than savoured: offices, workshops, big families, anywhere the kettle never properly goes cold. The leaf dose per bag is the same as the standard boxes at roughly 3.1g, so you are buying the identical cup in a cheaper wrapper, not a catering-grade compromise.
The exact origin statement, the leaf grades used, the bag material and any certification marks are printed on the current UK pack and change from time to time, so we do not restate them here. What is worth knowing is that this is a blend built around consistency: the cup is meant to taste the same in a hard-water town as in a soft-water one, and the same in March as in October.
Packaging: Even a 240 carton has parts that may need different bins, which your council and the pack's notes can sort out.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- Buying 240 bags in one carton is the single biggest packaging saving available in everyday tea: three 80-bag boxes carry three cartons for the same number of brews.
- Whether Taylors claim the bags compost, and what they are made of, is printed on the box now sold in the UK; card, film and used bags rarely share a route, so let that box and your council guide you.
- A box this size also cuts delivery journeys, which is the part of the footprint most people forget when they buy small boxes often.
Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, 750g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Taylors of Harrogate | Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea is the family-owned blend out of Harrogate that became Britain's favourite. The Original is the everyday workhorse; Gold steps it up with stronger Assam character; Hard Water powers through limescale areas. Taylors has been in the same family since 1886, sources ethically through the Rainforest Alliance, and famously refuses gimmicks.
Packaging: Even a 240 carton has parts that may need different bins, which your council and the pack's notes can sort out.
Our commitment to the planet
The taste profile
How does it compare
This is a forgiving blend, which is exactly what you want from a box of 240. It still needs water straight off the boil, but it will not turn harsh if the bag stays in an extra minute while you deal with something else, and that tolerance is what makes it the right tea for a busy kitchen.
The Everyday Mug
The Urn or Big Pot
Made with this tea
The Everyday Mug
A standard mug of Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea, start to finish.
- 1 bag Yorkshire Tea
- 250ml just boiled water
- Milk to taste
- Pour 250ml of boiling water onto one bag in a heated mug and put a cover over it.
- Steep for 3 to 5 minutes, then squeeze once and lift the bag out.
- Add milk, judging the colour by eye rather than pouring to habit.
- This blend colours up faster than most, so it usually needs less milk than you expect.
What you'll end up with: A heavy, rounded mug with low bitterness even if the bag sat a minute too long.
The Big Pot
How to make a pot for a crowd with Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea.
- 9 bags Yorkshire Tea
- 2 litres just boiled water
- A warmed 2 litre pot
- Milk to taste
- Warm the 2 litre pot by sloshing in some kettle water and emptying it again.
- Add one bag per person plus one for the pot, so 9 bags for 8 cups.
- Fill with 2 litres at a rolling boil, lid on, and steep 5 minutes.
- Lift every bag out together before the first cup is poured, and put milk in the cups rather than the pot.
What you'll end up with: Eight even cups, and everyone gets the strength they actually wanted.
Cheap Iced Tea by the Jug
How to make a jug of iced tea with Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea.
- 4 bags Yorkshire Tea
- 500ml just boiled water
- Plenty of ice
- 1 lemon
- Sugar to taste
- Brew 4 bags in 500ml of kettle hot water and give them 8 minutes, so the base comes out doubly strong.
- Sweeten while warm if you want it sweet.
- Cool, then pour over a jug packed with ice and add the juice of a whole lemon.
- Serve without milk.
Yorkshire Parkin with Tea
How to use Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea in parkin.
- 2 bags Yorkshire Tea
- 200g oatmeal
- 200g self raising flour
- 200g golden syrup
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- Brew 2 bags in 150ml straight from the kettle, 8 minutes, then leave to cool.
- Melt 200g of golden syrup with 150g of butter and 150g of dark brown sugar.
- Mix in 200g of oatmeal, 200g of self raising flour, 2 teaspoons of ground ginger and the cooled tea.
- Bake in a lined tin at 160°C for 50 minutes, then leave it wrapped for three days before cutting.
What you'll end up with: The tea deepens the treacle note and keeps the crumb damp, which is the whole point of parkin.
Tea-Brined Pork Chops
How to use Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea in a savoury brine.
- 4 bags Yorkshire Tea
- 1 litre just boiled water
- 60g salt
- 30g brown sugar
- Brew 4 bags in 1 litre of just boiled water for 10 minutes for a very strong liquor.
- Dissolve 60g of salt and 30g of brown sugar in it while hot, then cool completely.
- Submerge the chops in the cold brine and refrigerate for 3 hours.
- Drain, pat dry and fry or grill as usual.
What you'll end up with: The tannins firm the meat and the malt gives the crust a deeper colour in the pan.
Sweet Condensed Milk Brew
How to make a sweet condensed-milk brew with Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea.
- 2 bags Yorkshire Tea
- 200ml just boiled water
- 2 tablespoons condensed milk
- Brew 2 bags with 200ml of newly boiled water for 5 minutes, until the liquor turns very dark.
- Stir in 2 tablespoons of condensed milk until it dissolves.
- Drink hot, or cool it and pour over ice.
What you'll end up with: Heavy and sweet, and the rounded malt in this blend suits it better than a brisk tea would.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Black tea | 100% | The only ingredient. A blend chosen for rounded malt and heavy body rather than for briskness. |
| Added flavourings | none | There are none. The sweetish malt note is the leaf itself. |
Ingredients and allergens. For this barcode the declared ingredient is black tea alone, and nothing from the 14 major allergens appears. Recipe and allergy text are open to revision, so glance at the current UK carton first.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Black tea.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. Treat the carton you receive as the authority over this table.
Pack: Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, 750g; roughly 3.1g of leaf per bag, 240 bags per carton, caffeinated black tea. Best-before date is printed on the pack.
Only one ingredient is listed, which keeps the proportion column short. Divide 750g by 240 bags for the leaf weight quoted: a calculation, not a printed figure, and a close one rather than an exact one.
Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, 750g is blended by Taylors of Harrogate, the family tea and coffee business based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Components are bought to a fixed cup specification rather than from one named garden, and the blenders taste against that specification through every batch so the cup holds steady from box to box. The bulk carton carries the same leaf dose per bag as the standard retail boxes.
What's in Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, 750g, and what isn't:
- In: black tea leaf and nothing else, dosed at roughly 3.1g per bag.
- No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: the rounded malt is the leaf.
- Bag and packaging: card carton; bag material and any compostability claim are printed on the current UK pack and should be read off the box you have.
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Source: teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea 240, 750g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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